Sigourney Weaver Quotes

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.

Once I put that wig on, I didn't say an intelligent thing for four months. My voice went up. I walked differently. I'd ask incredibly stupid questions.

It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

Sorry men, but I think boys are a little more oblivious in high school. Girls are just more sensitive. We're so concerned about how we look and how we're doing.

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.

I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.

I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.

Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!

People are amazed that I do comedy. I always did comedy.

I love the role of Ripley.

I am a person who goes out without a purse.

With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans.

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

If one is married for a long time, and one does have a family . . . It is like an energy, a wonderful fire that never goes out underneath you, to help you go out into the world and do your damnedest.

People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.

I think so many families are touched by illness and loss, and we kind of overprotect our children often, you know, we sanitize.

In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because Oscar voters loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.

It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.

I consider myself very much a team player.

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.

I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.

I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.